Word.ws English Dictionary

self-weighing

self-weighing adjective: that weighs itself, or its load or contents.

Adjective

self-weighing (not comparable)

  1. That weighs itself, or its load or contents.
    • a self-weighing suitcase
    • It is probable that greater saving than this occurred in day-to-day service where men who were familiar with the Crosti engines did not over-fire them; so far as I know, however, a self-weighing tender has never been attached to one of these 2-10-0s.1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425

Origin of self-weighing

From self- + weighing.

Questions about self-weighing

What does self-weighing mean?
Self-weighing means that weighs itself, or its load or contents.
What part of speech is self-weighing?
Self-weighing is an adjective.

Words near self-weighing in the dictionary

  1. self-view
  2. self-views
  3. self-violence
  4. self-waiting table
  5. self-watering
  6. self-weighing
  7. self-will
  8. self-willed
  9. self-willedly
  10. self-willedness
  11. self-winding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-weighing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-weighing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-weighing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.